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30 September 2011

Jimmy Eat World

For some reason it felt like it had been a while since I'd been to theWiltern. But Jimmy Eat World was celebrating the 10 year anniversaryof Bleed American by playing the whole album.

It is amazing how defining some albums can be for your history. Infour stanzas I watch a whole crowd, myself included, transportedseamlessly back a decade. A few riffs and this vivid rush of memoriesoverpowers your mental state. All at once passion and pain and loveand loss slam into your psyche and you relive a long ago time in ahyperspeed hash plugged directly into your emotional cortex.

I'm not saying JEW is the key to world peace, but music, especiallyamazingly moving emotional intelligent inspirational ageless anthemsare certainly one of the only forces in the universe with the kind ofpotential to make it possible. It sure walks all over my mind withreckless abandon. And watching the masses move so mightily in chorusduring the show I'm convinced I'm not the only one.